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[quote=Anonymous]I think it’s also cultural.  The parents in my family are all academics (PhD, PhD, masters — there’s a remarriage in there but all three were present in our lives) and me and my sisters are all academic minded to some degree: oldest has a PhD; middle was an English major so couldn’t justify the cost of pursuing a postgrad education but is still very involved in academic literature, etc; youngest (me) has a masters.  I started university sort of assuming I would go on to get a PhD but eventually realized that I’m not really cut out for research.  But I love certain aspects/ideals of academia — that fact people are committed to knowledge and learning as an end in and of itself, the idea that reasoned debate and the own flow of information should be standard, etc — and would love to eventually get a job (staff/tech role) at a university.  On one hand I know intimately how horribly toxic academia  can be, but on the other hand it’s what I’m used to.  White collar office cultural still feels vaguely alien to me even though I’ve been working in it for over a decade.[/quote]

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